complaints about orbit-idl version building gnumeric

["Sergey I. Panov" <sipan mit edu>]

> > orbit-idl --libIDL-version reports:
> > libIDL 0.5.8 (CORBA 2.2)
> > 
> > I rebuilt ORBit without errors, so I am figuring that this is the correct
> > version.  I don't see another version of orbit-idl on my system.
> 
> It seems to be ORBit is ``newer'' than gnome.
> 
> ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL is defined in several packages, among which
> gnome-libs and control-center (I have not reached gnome-core yet),
> where it is defined as 8, while ORBit defines it in orb.h as 9 and
> subsequently checks it. Hence the error message. I try to replace 8 by
> 9, but I am not sure whether it works. Newer versions than 0.99.5 are
> not available for gnome-libs afaik, so trying an older OBit might work
> (but is not something to be happy about).

there is no problem with gnome-core and gnome-libs (I am talking about
CVS versions), but there is problem in 'gnumeric","litespeed" and
"gnome-dom":
[sipan@sipan gnomecvs]$ grep ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL  `find ./ -name "*.h"`
./ORBit/src/orb/orbit.h:#ifdef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/orb/orbit.h:#if ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL < 9
./ORBit/src/orb/interface_repository.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/orb/interface_repository.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/daemons/interface_repository/interface_repository.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/daemons/interface_repository/interface_repository.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/services/event/CosEventComm.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/services/event/CosEventComm.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/services/event/CosEventChannel.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/services/event/CosEventChannel.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/services/name/LName.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/services/name/LName.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/services/name/CosNaming.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/services/name/CosNaming.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/src/services/name/CosNaming.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/src/services/name/CosNaming.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/test/echo.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/test/echo.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/test/test-any.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/test/test-any.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/test/test-tc.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/test/test-tc.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./ORBit/test/test-ir.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./ORBit/test/test-ir.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-games/gnothello/gnothello-game.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./gnome-games/gnothello/gnothello-game.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-libs/libgnorba/gnome-factory.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./gnome-libs/libgnorba/gnome-factory.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-core/help-browser/help-browser.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./gnome-core/help-browser/help-browser.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-core/panel/gnome-panel.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./gnome-core/panel/gnome-panel.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./mc/gnome/FileManager.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./mc/gnome/FileManager.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-dom/XMLString.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 2
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
./gnome-dom/XMLString.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-dom/DOM.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./gnome-dom/DOM.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./control-center/control-center/control-center.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./control-center/control-center/control-center.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnome-pim/gnomecard/gnome-pim.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./gnome-pim/gnomecard/gnome-pim.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./balsa/idl/balsa.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 9
./balsa/idl/balsa.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./litespeed/NFTPC.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 8
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
./litespeed/NFTPC.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL
./gnumeric/src/Gnumeric.h:#define ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL 8
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
./gnumeric/src/Gnumeric.h:#undef ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL